Re: IRC Site

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber redhat com>]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Mike Chambers wrote:

> BTW, is there an irc server/net/channel that maybe RH support folks may hang
> out at to help or support or anything like that?

Not that I'm aware of. What's wrong with this list?

> If not, why not create/make/join one?  Either make your own irc server(s),
> connect to another network even if it's not as much as the big ones, or just
> create a channel on an existing server and maybe setup couple of eggdrop
> type bots or something to help run it, with RH folks being the head ops or
> something.

I'm personally not a big fan of IRC, or instant messaging in all it's
various flavors.

> People could come and get support/help with things in stead of always doing
> stuff via email.
>
> Besides, nothing better then talking one on one about a problem, or at least
> close hehe.
>
> Anyway, just a thought/suggestion if it doesn't exist.

Not my decision to make. I get out of work here around 6:30PM, and I'm
often answering these mailing list questions till midnight on my own
time- I get paid to answer calls from users who have purchased
Pay-Per-Incident or Per-Server contracts. (I have no life) I don't think
I could answer my callers and multiple incomming IRC people at the same
time without my head exploding rather spectacularly. I'm rather attached
to my head, so I'm afraid that if someone set up IRC for that purpose I
would not be able to participate, sorry.

Chris Kloiber